Archive for February 3rd, 2005
Age, Wisdom, and the Entrepreneur
Business Week: Up until the mid-1990s, the conventional wisdom among business-school academics was that those who waited until their early 30s to start a business were most likely to succeed. By that age, according to the the then-current reasoning, individuals would have enough meaningful work experience to improve the odds of achieving success. Moreover, it [...]
I’m going to be interviewing a very successful eBay-based small businessman soon, and I’d like to offer you the opportunity to help me come up with questions to ask him. If there’s something you always wanted to know about running profiting from eBay now’s the time to ask. Please post your questions in the comments.
Government Fines Business Owner Thousands for Using Kids in Family Business
World Net Daily: A Washington state family is about to lose their home after the Department of Labor and Industries hit the father with thousands of dollars in fines for having his underage sons work alongside him in the family business – doing things the state believes are dangerous for young boys. In 2003, Jude [...]
I’ve been nominated for the Best VC/Entrepreneur Blog at the The 2005 Business Blogging Awards. Please vote early! Update: I won!
eBay Clarifies It Fee Increases
eBay: Recently, we announced fee changes taking effect on February 18th and affecting certain optional listing upgrades on eBay.com, the subscription fee for a Basic eBay Store, and Final Value Fees on Store Inventory Format listings. Based on Community input, we understand our original communication was a bit unclear. To clarify, no changes are being [...]
SimpleBits: I thought I’d poll the audience here — what do you look for in office space? What are the pros and cons? Finding something small and affordable enough seems difficult, but not impossible. And having dedicated work space outside the house seems to be of growing importance to me (and perhaps many of you). [...]
